An anti-Trump Republican group is launching a six-figure ad campaign against the former president, targeting him over the criminal charges he faces in Georgia related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The Republican Accountability Project will begin running the 60-second commercials on Monday, to be aired on Fox News in Phoenix, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. The campaign will also include a virtual billboard in Times Square featuring Trump’s mug shot with a running list of all 91 criminal charges the former president faces.
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“Donald Trump has spent the last seven years acting like the rule of law doesn’t apply to him,” Gunner Ramer, political director of the Republican Accountability Project, said in a statement. “We’re reminding the American people that no one in this country is above the law — not even a former president.”
The TV ad features clips of some of Trump’s most controversial moments in office, such as when he held a Bible in front of St. John’s Church just moments after protesters were driven back by Capitol Police during the summer 2020 racial justice protests, as well as photos of the classified documents that were found in his Mar-a-Lago home.
“When Donald Trump was president, he thought it didn’t matter how many laws and norms he broke. … Many of us even started saying ‘nothing matters,’” a voice-over in the ad says. “But in America, the rule of law still matters. And that’s why Donald Trump has been charged with 91 felonies in four separate cases. … This is America, and no one is above the law.”
The ad campaign focuses on the criminal charges Trump faces in Georgia after a grand jury voted on Aug. 14 to indict the former president on a slew of racketeering charges related to the 2020 election.
The indictment stems from a 2 1/2-year investigation into Trump’s efforts to reverse his loss to President Joe Biden in Georgia, a swing state that helped secure his Electoral College victory. The inquiry focused on five separate actions taken by Trump and the former president’s allies in the weeks following the 2020 election, including phone calls made to Georgia officials to overturn the election results.
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The indictment also detailed instances in which Trump and his allies pressured local election officials, made unfounded claims of voter fraud, and concocted a plan to recruit a fake slate of electors to certify a victory for Trump rather than Biden. Eighteen other people were indicted alongside Trump on similar charges, including former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump adviser John Eastman, among others.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and has accused Democrats of using the indictments as a way to interfere in the 2024 election, of which he is currently the front-runner for the GOP nomination. Republicans have largely come to his defense, accusing Biden of weaponizing the federal government to weaken his top political opponent.